Ribbon-roll clasp or guard.



PATIENTED JUNE 9, 1908.

T. H. O'BRIEN. I RIBBON ROLL CLASP 0R GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6,1905.

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THOMAS H. OBRIEN, OF FOND DU LAO, WISCONSIN.

RIBBON-ROLL CLASP OR GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed September 6, 1905. Serial No. 277,263.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. OBRIEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Ribbon-Roll Clasps or Guarc s, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to im rovements in clasps or guards for ribbon-r01 s.

Objects of the invention are to provide for effectively preventing the involuntary unreeling of the ribbon, together with the .interposed paper-strip in certain contingencies; to perm-it o the ready paying out of the ribbon as in measuring off the same over the counter and yet not requiring any precau tion to secure the ribbon-end after such opera tion; to provide for dispensing with the use of pins or like fastenings for this purpose, thus avoiding the liability of mutilating the ribbon or the soiling thereof as would otherwise be the case; and to carry out these objects in asimple, economic and effective manner.

Said invention consists of certain structural features or instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a erspective view thereof, as applied to a ribbon-roll for practical use. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the calsp or guard. Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 4 is a detailed pers ective view of the attaching looped or hoo ed members of the clas or guard. Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are modifications of said clasp or guard, the differentiating points thereof being disclosed in detail later. Figs. 5, 6 7 8 9, and 10 are detailed perspective views of the attaching members, or member as the case may be of the different forms of the clas or guard as embraced in the aforesaid modifications. I

In the disclosure of my invention, I constitute the clasp or guard principally of a flat-tube or pocket 1 preferably of card-board or like material, and of duplicate springlnetal loop or hook members 2, 2. Said card-board member or tube has a longitudinal slot or slit 2 through which is received or passed only the ribbon of the ribbon-roll and not the paper strip; and to said tube or pocket are applied the hook or loop members 2 for attaching it to the ribbon-roll. The flat tube or member 1 has its practically two compartments 1, formed by slotting it, each enveloped or reinforced by an additional thickness of material or wrapper 1 the advantage of which is obvious. The loop or hook members 2, 2 have their armportions 2 inserted into the open ends of the compartments 1 of the tube or pocket 1, and suitably held therein by the recoil spring pressure-action of said arm-portions 2, the latter being compressed as they are passed or inserted in place. In applying said clasp or guard, it will be noted that, by removing or withdrawing one of said hook or loop members, the retained opposite hook or loop member may be readily inserted beneath the required layers of the ribbon-roll, say the second or third from the top, when, by then reinserting the withdrawn or removed hook or loop member into the tube or pocket member and simultaneously passing its arm-portions, under compression, into their receiving end of the latter, the clasp or guard may be suitably and effectively attached to the ribbon-roll.

It will also be observed that with the ribbon-reel, clasp or guard suitably grasped by the hand, by drawing upon the ribbon, it may be readily paid out, together with the unwinding of the paper-strip, as in measuring off the ribbon, and yet, when the end of the ribbon has been released and the ribbon-roll placed upon the counter or back upon the shelf, the ribbon will be held against unreeling or unwinding, preserving the same all in tact, as will be appreciated from the forei going. As before noted, in event of the accidental dropping of the ribbon-roll from the grasp of the hand the clasp or guard is effective to prevent the involuntary unreeling of the ribbon, While no pins are required to secure the ribbon-end, thus avoiding the mutilating of the ribbon from that source or the soiling thereof as would otherwise be likely to occur, as is apparent.

In the various modifications, as disclosed by Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8, the flat tube or pocket feature is common to each, this feature, however, being differentiated from the preferred form thereof as above described, principally in that, in lieu of passing the ribbon through this member, the latter is equipped with means, permitting the superficial passing of said ribbon with relation thereto. \Vith that end in view, Fig. 5 suggests a wire bail or loop forming member 3, the same being produced ina continuous piece, with upper opposed slightly spaced apart terminals 3 and its lower body-portions 3 somewhat of rectangular-frame form and housed under one thickness of the flat-tubular member 4 the same being inserted through transverse slits 4* produced in said thickness. In Figs. 6 and 7, the loop is formed by bail-like wires 5 and 5 respectively, in the former, the Wire being tucked by its inbent ends into one thickness of the tubular member 4 and extending above the same, about in a line with its longitudinal center. In the latter case the wire bail or loop 5 is tucked by its inbent ends, into the open ends of a supplemental like tube 4 formed by a laterally reduced extension or portion of the tubularmem' ber 4 In Fig. 8 a duplicate arrangement of bail or loop forming wires 6 is employed in connection with a tubular member 6 practically the same in construction as either of those described or shown in the two latter forms or modifications. These wires, however, have their inbent ends tucked or buried into one thickness of the tubular member, at opposite lateral edges thereof, near the ends. In each of the four modifications, (Figs. 5, 6, 7 andS) instead of employing spring hooks or loops, as in the preferred disclosure of the invention, a paper-strip 7, with its infolded end-portions tucked into the tube-ends as shown, is employed to form a loop for the conjoint re ception or passage therethrough of the ribbon and interposed paper-slip.

In the modification, as suggested by Figs. 9 and 9*, it will be noted that, in lieu of the ribbon-strip receiving member aforesaid, we

equip the tubular or pocket member with a looped or bail-like forming member 8 bodily buried or embedded in the tubular or pocket member and having its outstanding armportions formed with flat coiled or convo luted terminals 8" which are spaced apart to permit the ready insertion thereunder of the ribbon-strip, as will be readily understood.

In the modification as shown by Figs. 10 and 10 the feature of differentiation consists in employing in lieu of the part or member 8, 8 of Figs. 9 and 9" practically duplicate or two such parts or members 9, with their buried portions 9 of right-angular outline and having their free ends projecting slightly from the forward edge of the tubular member, to engage the ribbon and prevent the possibility of its slipping after having been clasped or locked.

I claim:

1. The combination with a ribbonroll, including a ribbon-layer and a paper-layer, of a tubular member ,means effective for securing said tubular member to said ribbon-roll and a guide slot in said tubular member adapted to receive said. ribbon-layer and of less width than said paper-layer, said tubular member adapted to receive said securing means for connecting it to said ribbon-roll.

2. The combination with a ribbon-roll, including a ribbon-layer and a paper-layer, of a tubular member equipped with spring-hooks for its attachment to said roll and a guide slot in said tubular member adapted to receive said ribbon-layer'and of less width than said paper-layer, said tubular member adapted to receive said spring-hooks.

3. The combination with a ribbon-roll, including a ribbon-layer and. a paper-layer, of a tubular member having means for its attachment to said roll, embracing tapered looped portions insertible in between the layers of said roll and a guide slot in said tubular member adapted to receive said ribbon-layer and of less width than said paper-layer, said tubular member adapted. to allow its rollattaching means to be inserted thereinto.

4. The combination with a ribbon-roll, including a ribbon-layer and a paperlayer, of a flat-tube having a slot, and means for the attachment of said tube to a ribbon-roll, said slot providing for the passage therethrough of the ribbon-end, separate from the paperstrip bearing the ribbon.

5. The combination with a ribbon-roll, including a ribbon-layer and a paper-layer, of a flat-tube having a slot, and spring-loops or hooks connected to said tube and adapted to be applied to a ribbon-roll, said slot adapted to receive and permit the passage therethrough of the ribbon-end, separate from the strip of paper bearing the ribbon.

6. A device of the character described, comprising a flat-tube having a longitudinal slot, and attaching means for said tube formed of opposite loops or hooks bent so as to be sprung into the latter at its ends and having their loops effective for insertion into a ribbon-roll, in between layers of the ribbon and the paper-strip bearing the ribbon.

7. The combination with a ribbon-roll including a ribbon-layer and a paper-layer, of a tubular member, means for attaching said tubular member to said ribbon-roll, said tubular member also being equipped with means for the retention of said ribbon-layer only in clasped position and whereby said ribbon layer is adapted. to rest upon and. externally of said tubular member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS H. OBRIEN. Witnesses:

F. W. CHADBOURNE, TESSIE NORMILE. 

